Gifton Elias

Gifton Elias
Birth name	Vuppula Gifton Elias
Born	(1987-02-14) 14 February 1987 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Genres	Film score, World music, Contemporary, Instrumental
Occupation(s)	Film composer Music Director Music Producer Fiddler Arranger Multi-Instrumentalist Conductor
Instruments	Violin, Piano, Viola, Electronic keyboard, Synthesizers, Guitar, Cello, Mandolin, Percussions
Labels	Times Music
Website	www.giftonelias.com

Gifton Elias (born 14 February 1987) is an Indian Musician film composer, an Alumnus of Trinity College of Music, London, United Kingdom.

Early life

Gifton was born and brought up in Hyderabad, India. He did his schooling at Little Flower High School, Hyderabad. He has a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from Loyola Academy, Secunderabad and a master's degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai.

Gifton's tryst with music began when he was just five. Gifton hails from a musically affluent family. Under the guidance of his father Sri. V. K. Elias (Telugu Gospel Music Director, All India Radio, Doordarshan), Gifton started singing, playing electronic keyboards, guitars at his church and school band.

After his third standard, he got into the most prestigious Trinity College of Music, London. He started learning classical piano & violin from Sri. John C Marthand. As a child prodigy, he would assist his father sometimes for recordings at All India Radio, Doordarshan & other cultural shows.

He was a part of the Hyderabad Chamber Orchestra (founded & conducted by his Violin Guru Sri. John C Marthand), Festival Choristers (a group of music lovers and senior Bureaucrats of Andhra Pradesh like Smt. Aruna Bahuguna IPS, Smt. Rachel Chatterjee IAS, and others), other Fusion bands accompanying with his violin, viola, piano & synths.

Career

After his post graduation, Gifton worked as Assistant Director with Ace Film maker Geetha Krishna for sometime & later started creating his own music. In 2008, he did his first independent project for renowned south Indian actress Dr. Jayasudha Kapoor. Since then, he regards her as his "Godmother". He composed music for ads, jingles, commercials, documentaries, short films, music videos.

On 30 April 2010, at the age of 23, during the communal riots in Hyderabad, Gifton conducted a Peace Concert at the Royal Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad featuring a 50-member symphony orchestra live. The orchestra included few students from Young Stringz School of Music, musicians from Andhra Pradesh Police Band & others. The concert was graced by Smt. Dr. Jayasudha Kapoor (the then sitting MLA, Secunderabad Constituency), Sri. Noel Swaranjit Sen, IPS (Retd) other local leaders & Media.^[1]

Gifton debuted as a Film Music Composer with the film Janaki Ramudu (2016 film), which released on 16 December 2016. He composed 5 songs & scored BGM for the film.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Discography

Janaki Ramudu (2016 film)^[9]^[10]

Independent work

2007 - "Priya Raaga" (private album)
2011 - "The Indian National Anthem" (a video single, released by the then Honourable Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh Smt. P. Sabitha Indra Reddy ^[11]
2012 - "Love You Maa" (Sand Art Video Single for Mother's Day) sung by Malavika (singer) Sand Art by Kanth Risa ^[12]^[13]
2012 – "The Fiddler" ^[14]
2013 - "Love You Maa" (Cello Cover) ^[15]
2014 - "Vande Mataram" sung by Mohammed Irfan (singer), Geetha Madhuri ^[16]^[17]
2017 – "Oh My Valentine" (Single for Valentine's Day) sung by Noel Sean, Sravana Bhargavi^[18]^[19]^[20]

References

External links

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